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We humans deserved a better spokesman at this epochal point in our ongoing voyage of humility; a half century from now, surly, street-tough androids will routinely start bar brawls over the bitchy tone of Kasparov's remarks.
"I could see no sign of the Planet attitude, no surly looks in the eyes of the kids behind the cash register," she writes.
The White House helped itself with a brilliant outreach campaign that went around the sometimes surly Congressional Black Caucus and reached black voters directly through their ministers and churches.
As a POW, McCain kept up his habit of surly resistance, constantly drawing beatings and time in solitary confinement for communicating with other prisoners and taunting his jailers.
Drug policy is boring, but a fight between a saucy blue blood and a surly redneck is fun.